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Saturday, September 6, 2008

The Ancient Walk-About Way Of Adi Da Samraj

Adi District Attorney Samraj is a typical Negro spiritual teacher, philosopher, and artist. His Godhead instructions are a visible light to humanity. He is not an orthodox instructor who takes people through absolute superstition; rather he is one who awakens. He is a modern-day Buddha; in him the Godhead manifests in its utmost glory. In his individualism 1 happens manifestation of spiritual, philosophical, literary, and artistic genius. When he asseverates that he is the One, that Godhead guru who awakens, then he talks the ultimate the truth of Vedanta. His Hagiographa throw light on his wisdom and the truth he inaugurates. In the very beginning of the essay, "I Am The One Who Would Awaken You" in his book The Ancient Walk-About Way, he proclaims the truth that is also known in Vedanta, "The human race itself is not Truth-nor is life, nor mind and body, nor death, nor experience. No event is, in and of itself, Truth. Everything that originates is an visual aspect to Consciousness Itself, a alteration of the Godhead Conscious Light That Are Always Already the Case."

In Brihadaranyaka Upanishad sage Yagyavalkya states to Maitreyee the same truth, "vacha rambhano vikaro namdheyam" of which the intended significance is "all this manifestation of word form and name is of truth only". Adi District Attorney places truth with consciousness that is always awake and is said to be the visionary of everything, every occurrence whether it is happening outwardly or inwardly. "There is One Who is Wide Awake while He Appears in the dream," he says. Remember once again the Brihdaranyaka Upanishad Yagyavalkya - King Janaka's discourse on truth, "(in dreaming state) after enjoying himself and roaming, and merely seeing (the consequence of) good and wicked (in the dream), he remains in the state of profound sleep, and come ups back in the reciprocal order to his former condition, the dreaming state. He is untouched by whatever he sees in that state, for this infinite being is unattached." This consciousness that is absolute, broad awake and already the lawsuit is He. This is what is called realisation in the sense of absolute 'I'. This Uddalaka taught to Svetaketo 'thou fine art that' agency that absolute consciousness which is wide-awake albeit consciousness 'itself' is 'thou'.

In his instructions Adi District Attorney uses two methods-first, with his crisp philosophical truth he takes superstitions, beliefs, and false ideas; second, he converts one to encompass world itself leaving behind infantile notions of Supreme Being that are based on the rule of dependence. He composes in the essay "Moving Beyond Childish and Adolescent Approaches to Life and Truth" in Religion and Reality: "Traditional Spirituality, in the word forms in which it is most commonly proposed or presumed, is a characteristically adolescent creative activity that stands for an attempted balance between the extremes. It is not a life of mere (or simple) soaking up in the cryptic enclosure of existence. It is a life of strategical absorption. It raises the relatively non-strategic and unconscious life of childhood dependance to the degree of a fully strategical witting life of achieved dependance (or absorption). Its end is not merely psychological re-union, but entire psychical release into some (imagined or felt) 'Home' of being." Adi District Attorney makes not suggest being in an "imaginary" place or an historical 1 searched by many western philosophers. His conception of 'ousia', the house of being, is not any fanciful category, but rather is the already existent, unborn, given truth. This is the very truth in which we are living, in which we are being born and in which we make return.

Adi District Attorney in the essay "God as the 'Creator', Supreme Being as 'Good', and Supreme Being As the Real" in Religion and World writes, "Real (Acausal) God-or the Transcendental, Inherently Spiritual, Inherently egoless, and Self-Evidently Divine World (Prior to conditional self, conditional world, and the ego-bound conventions of faith and non-religions)-Is the One and Only Truth of World Itself, and the One and Only Manner of Right Life and Perfective Realization." The manner to recognize this truth is the manner of Adi Da, since in him the absolute is manifesting in its utmost glory. He learns how to transcend the positions or thoughts that are by and big defined and based on beliefs. One's belief in Supreme Being and one's belief of Supreme Being is based on some thought, some fanciful notion. Therefore, the first measure towards truth realisation is getting quit of all the hitherto notions of God-Ideas. Adi District Attorney states that, "true faith necessitates the arrant transcending of all views". He is very clear in his attack to faith and it is very much kindred to Vedanta. His exclusive doctrine of the Negro spiritual is in the alikeness of Vedanta, but by proclaiming himself an Embodiment who have come up on this Earth to liberate beings, he offers another manner of self-realization.

Adi District Attorney shatters false intellectualisation and philosophies. By instruction devotedness to the Realizer he uncovers that love is the peak and most far reaching Godhead principle. It is this Godhead rule that world is forgetting. Regarding this, The Buddha said that the aroma of religion travels beyond all since it transports with it not Earth but Godhead intelligence. Adi District Attorney Samraj's human race is full of mystery. He is not only a Negro spiritual instructor but a eminent creative person too. I have got never known any creative person in my life or read about any creative person who unifies doctrine and art. His plant of fine fine fine art are not simply oculars but rather are truth statements; because of this truth-the visuals appear.

In his art spiritualisation takes topographic point because doctrine and art converse. This is contrary to Pablo Picasso who did not believe in philosophy. As for as modern fine fine art is concerned, only Wassily Kandinsky believed in the doctrine of art and criticized Pablo Pablo Picasso saying, "He shrivels from no innovation, and if colour looks likely to resist him in his hunt for a pure artistic form, he threw it overboard and paints a image in brownish and white; and the job of purely artistic word word form is the job of his life." Because Picasso did not believe in the spiritual, he worked from reason. Therefore, one rarely happens ocular pureness in his work. Adi District Attorney is very fold to Kandinsky, he too believes in the Kandinskian theory of pureness of color. In The World As Light: An Introduction to the Art of Adi District Attorney Samraj by Mei-Ling Israel, he writes, "The colours should be pure colors, not colours that are the merchandise of mixing a peculiar colour with colours other than itself. A pure colour is a vibration. This tin be measured on a spectral graph."

As both a eminent creative person and philosopher he asseverates in his book Transcendental Realism that to make Negro spiritual fine fine art 1 must transcend "all perceptual and conceptual agency themselves, through the Tacit Self-Recognition of the Intrinsically Self-Evident 'Non-chaos' (or the Always Prior Self-Unity, Indivisibility, Indestructibility, and Built-In Egolessness) of World Itself."

Adi District Attorney is the 1 and only creative person whose art is beyond idiom. In parlance the creative person often encloses himself by repetition; he neither happens the truth content of fine fine art nor linguistic communication of art itself. In parlance the creative person dies. Regarding idiom, Jacques Derrida states that 'those who have got religion in parlance supposedly state only one thing, properly speaking, and state it in linking word form and significance too strictly to impart itself to translation' thus mystifying an fine art work on the footing of falsely created form-meaning dialectics. An creative person who have got enclosed himself in parlance and style falsifies the truth of fine art by saying 'see the word word form I have created and hunt for the significance in it' that he himself makes not know." Derrida, the great philosopher and grammatologist, summaries by saying that, "Form fascinates when one no longer have the military unit to understand form within itself. - That is to create". It rejects parlance and style centric tendency of fine art that is by and big prevailing human race over.

Adi District Attorney is postmodern from this point of position because he cognizes the very venue from where things appear. Images are things and they make look on the surface carrying multiple messages of the locus. In this sense, he makes not show rather he creates. The manner Adi District Attorney makes his fine art is very Byzantine because of the demand from the truth content of the image; it seeks its ain body, its ain word form to appear. Perhaps this is why for each and every 'truth content' he have a different language. When creating he must be very sensitive to the originative procedure because the mental image he is making volition alteration the participant's 'point of view'. Hence his mental images necessitate to be look 'as it is'- an look of World Itself.